Re: How to remount a USB drive

On 2010-01-22, T i m <news@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

No, I do it about 10 to 20 times a day, every (week)day and in the last
8 years I have had trouble twice. So vanishingly small a problem it is
that if I had unmounted the disk each time I would be hundreds of hours
worse off.

Some memory sticks even indicate their state - I've one here that flashes
on/off when being accessed, then softly pulses (like a sleeping MacBook)
when it isn't. It's generally safe to yank it when it's pulsing.

And don't you *dare* quote that out of context..!

Like wot I said back there then: "If you go 'copy files, note it's
finished copying (typically flashing LED) ... yank' then?"

I missed the start of this thread.

Jim
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